Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I… — Trudie Styler Copy Share Image
No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
There are so many artists these days that are trying to imitate other artists and go for a certain style; there's a… — Mister Lies Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
“we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to… — Tones and I Copy Share Image
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were… — John Polson Copy Share Image
There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical… — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Artists and writers have always had a rather exaggerated idea about what goes on at a witches’ sabbat. This comes from spending… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries.… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
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